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I have no idea what people's issue is with this topic
It's because the topic's progression resembles that of a certain pattern of spamming.
Hi!
I had the same problem.
A lot of spam starts out this way. Usually it will just say something like "tell me if you find a solution" and then say "BUY *SPAM*!" or whatever underneath as a spam link.
I googled and found the solution here : http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic112380.html
So far so good- links to another forum where somebody found a solution. Notice however that the one post that provides t he relevant info is from another Poster with a single post. There is a pattern emerging.
Why would somebody spam forums with a link like this? Unless, say, the executables were infected. I don't doubt there was an original file that contained the drivers, but I would be highly suspect given the circumstances of wether the linked file truly is "safe".
One of the frequent posters there reposts the file as an attachment, for example; the attachment is 127K... the file on the linked url is a good 159K. One wonders what the extra space is from. (could either be from a different set of files entirely or the files are different... I'd check but I don't have a techspot account, oh well). It could of course be from an update or something. (I'd be inclined to believe that, as it appears to have x64 drivers as well)
Additionally, we have seen this ALOT. Although personally I didn't really see anything strange (call me a cargo cult poster, I suppose), nor do I believe it quite fits the pattern. Usually somebody will be both the person requesting help, and then they will also provide the "solution" via a spam link; then in order to make it seem more authentic they also post as other people who are saying how well it worked or thanking them. I don't think it meets this particular pattern because the link is not an "obvious" spam-link (a forum link and a link to a file) so unless the file is, say, infected (no idea, I don't think so) it's highly unlikely that's what happened here. It's just a very common behavioural pattern and unless somebody is watching and reading the topic very closely it's very difficult to tease apart the truth from the spam (in a sense). I now believe this is a fully legitimate topic
If in fact you people are really... not spammers... or something, and truly did need the driver and it now works, then excellent news! It's rather atypical to have a first and only time poster provide something so helpful and never return, is all, and the topic started to smell rather fishy.
googling for "USB 2.0SER" brings up quite a number of other forum posts. This forum post appears nowhere on the first page. (it does appear with a ! though), (I guess that is in the error msg...)
I downloaded
http://www.winchiphead.com/download/CH341/CH341SER.ZIP ,installed the driver and it worked for me !
Good luck.
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